# User defined minimum allowed free space

**URL:** <https://forum.storj.io/t/user-defined-minimum-allowed-free-space/27009>\
**Category:** Storage Node feature requests - voting\
**Tags:** storage\
**Created:** [July 8, 2024, 11:41pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/user-defined-minimum-allowed-free-space/27009 "2024-07-08T23:41:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![snorkel](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/snorkel/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@snorkel](https://forum.storj.io/u/snorkel)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2024, 4:29am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/user-defined-minimum-allowed-free-space/27009/3 "2024-07-09T04:29:40Z")

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Not only the minimum. You should specify the allocated space also, but if you would want to overallocate, see my other thread… (link down), you will need also to specify a good minimum.  
[https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-allocation-overwritten-by-storagenode/27010?u=snorkel](https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-allocation-overwritten-by-storagenode/27010)

In my case, running Synologys and Ubuntu servers, I can only use that trick on Ubuntu, because the OS has it’s own NVMe drive.  
But Synology copies the DSM (it’s OS) on all installed drives; this way in case of failure of one drive, the machine continues working like nothing happened.

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